“Errol Barrow: Freedom Fighter,” a full-length feature film on the life of the former prime minister of Barbados who led his country to political independence in 1966, will have its world premiere at the Innis Town Hall cinema, University of Toronto, on November 12. This docudrama stars Adrian Holmes, a Canadian of Barbadian heritage, and […]
The widely acclaimed Trinidadian parandera Sharlene Flores returns to Toronto to serenade parang lovers with some of her finest classic numbers at the Estate Banquet and Event Centre on Nugget Avenue in Scarborough on Saturday. She will be appearing at the twelfth annual “Parang Parang” show at which Los Amigos, Maestre and Friends, Los Pajaros […]
Calypso Rose has been awarded the 2016 Artist Award by the World Music Expo (WOMEX), an international networking platform for the world music industry. The event was held in Spain this year. The Artist Award is the top award given out at the WOMEX event. In announcing the award to Calypso Rose, WOMEX said :”In […]
“Shoot the messenger,’” a political crime thriller, produced by Sudz Sutherland and Jennifer Holness, the husband and wife team from Hungry Eyes Film and Television, premieres on Monday on CBC-TV. In an interview, Jamaica-born Holness concedes that the idea of shooting or killing the messenger is certainly not a new one in the field of […]
By Jasminee Sahoye By Jasminee Sahoye The 11th Annual CaribbeanTales International Film Festival under the theme, ‘Caribbean Love’ wrapped up on Wednesday evening following the sold out Canadian screening of Bazodee, a new style Bollywood musical with a distinctly Caribbean island flavour. It’s set on the vivid, colourful twin islands of Trinidad and […]
The Organization of Calypso Performing Artistes (OCPA) of Toronto has announced the finalists and their order of appearance for the 2016 Calypso Monarch Competition to be held at the Latvian Canadian cultural centre in East York on Sunday July 24. A news release from OCPA says there is ” a new format” this year for […]
Soca superstar Machel Montano has taken his fast-paced jump up music to the White House. Strumming a cuatro, Montano, who is considered Trinidad and Tobago’s leading soca artiste, sang his 2009 hit ” Dance with you” to a delighted audience at the home of the President of the United States. He was one of several […]
Last weekend two calypso tents opened in Toronto, heralding the beginning of the city’s carnival season. The Professionals, back at the Steel Workers Hall, saw the return of Montreal’s and St. Lucia’s Dennis James, four-time calypso monarch. James was among a strong contingent of singers returning for another exciting season. On Sunday, Kaiso Forum pitched […]
The sun is out. The mas camp elves are busy bending wire. The pans are already ringing their merry tunes around the city pan yards. And the kaiso men and women are honing and massaging their new compositions in the tents in the quest to take the throne from reigning Monarch Macomere Fifi. Tropical Rhythms […]
